Some plugins are included directly in the themes and some are hosted on wordpress.org which takes a while to download.

After installing, click the link Return to Required Plugins Installer. You’ll be redirected to a page where all installed plugins are listed. It’s required to activate them. So select them all and choose Activate from the drop-down and click Apply:

After activating the plugins, there will be a message Hi! Would you like to activate your version of Revolution Slider to receive live updates & get premium support? This is optional and not needed if the slider came bundled with a theme. after activating the plugins. Just ignore it as we already bought the extended license of the Revolution Slider plugin and included it in the theme. You can use the plugin without buying another license. So click on (never show this message again) link.

The same issue happens with Visual Composer plugin. When you see a message Hola! Would you like to receive automatic updates and unlock premium support? Please activate your copy of Visual Composer., just click on the X icon on the right to disable the message.

BPF already integrates with WooCommerce – the best e-commerce plugin for WordPress – to allow you run a store on your website. To make WooCommerce works properly, you need to set it up first. Click on the Run the Setup Wizard button:

BPF requires the Jetpack plugin to work properly. The plugin requires you to connect you website with your WordPress.com account (which is free). Go to the Dashboard and click the Connect Jetpack button:

This tab has option for the top bar. The topbar left and right are 2 sidebars: Topbar left and Topbar right. To add content to the topbar, please go to Appearance > Widgets. Recommended content for the topbar: text, custom menu, social links and login/register links.

Show Topbar: Whether to show or hide the top bar

Options for background color, text color, icon color and font size for the top-level items and the sub menu items are self-explained.

These sections are similar. They have several options for posts, products, projects, events, courses on archive page and single page. All the options are easy to understand. You can find option to change the sidebar layout, colors and hide several elements on the page if you want.

The main navigation appears at the top right of every page of your website. On tablet and mobile devices, it will be hidden behind a toggle button. To set it up, simply create a new menu in Appearance > Menus and assign it to the Header location.

Jetpack, the plugin made by Automattic, is a great free plugin which adds a lot of features to your WordPress website, the features that you can only see on wordpress.com. These features that help you customize and manage your site in a professional way. Let’s take a look at the plugin features and why they’re useful for your WordPress websites.

Before going into the details, you need to install the plugin. Doing that by going to Plugins → Add New. You will see the plugin is listed at the 1st position. Click on the Install Now button to install it:

After installing, the button will change to Activate, click it again to activate the plugin. Jetpack will show you a notification asking to connect your website to WordPress.com. This step is required for some modules to work such as Stats, Publicize, etc. You need to create an account on WordPress.com and follow the instruction to connect your website.

You will see a new menu added on the left called Jetpack. Now go to Jetpack → Settings and you will see all modules:

Jetpack modules are organized into several groups: General, Engagement, Security, Appearance and Writing. Next to each module is a switching button that allows you to enable or disable the modules.

Jetpack requires you to connect to WordPress.com to use its functionality. However, if you don’t want to connect to WordPress.com, you can still use it freely by enabling the development mode. Please following these steps:

Jetpack custom content types module adds custom post types (CPTs) to your site. These CPTs allow you to add content that doesn’t necessarily fit into a post but isn’t right for a static page either. Since this is part of Jetpack, you can even switch themes without losing these custom post types!

There are 2 CPTs that we use in our themes: portfolio and testimonial.

Once activated, a new menu Portfolios will appear on the left menu that allows you to add projects.

When you add a new or edit a project, remember to add the following info:

Featured image

Project Types

Project Tags

And sometimes additional Project Settings (depends on each theme, the settings might be different). Note that not all themes has Project Settings. These settings are added by themes (for example TheM theme).

Custom CSS module is a very helpful module for the website owners. This module allows you to change the appearance of your website using CSS. After activating the module, go to Appearance → Edit CSS to add your custom CSS:

There you can enter any CSS to change your theme look and field.

If you’re just getting started with CSS, there will be a learning curve, but CSS is a very valuable and reusable skill. There are a TON of great resources on the web to get you started with learning more about HTML and CSS. The Daily Post blog featured a great series of CSS articles you might like as a starting point:

Activating Photon means that the images in your posts and pages are going to be served through the WordPress.com CDN (Content Delivery Network). This, like other CDNs, takes a lot of the loading pressure off your host and help your website load faster. Boo-yah!

If your post has managed to keep your visitors’ attention long enough for them to make it to the very end of the post, then they obviously like what you have to say. Why not offer them the option to browse other posts on your blog so that they can find something else to read?

Jetpack Related Posts module not only will this help keep your visitors’ on your site longer, and thus lower bounce rate, but it will help them navigate your site with easy.

Wouldn’t you hate it if you found out your site had been down for over and hour and no one notified you? Just think of how much traffic you’d lose! With the monitoring feature activated in Jetpack you can, at the very least, get an email notification that your site is experiencing downtime.

The early warning could be nothing to worry about, but if it persists, then you’ll get another email that will tell you that it may be time to contact your host provider. It’s just one more way to stay one step ahead of the game.

WordPress.com Stats lets you know how many visits your site gets, and what posts and pages are most popular.

There are many plugins and services that provide statistics, but data can be overwhelming. WordPress.com Stats makes the most popular metrics easy to understand through a clear and attractive interface. Plus, you can use WordPress.com stats in conjunction with other analytics plugins and services.

There are millions of WordPress themes available for you to choose for your websites. Most of the theme come with many options that help you build your website easier and faster. Some themes even include multiple versions of the homepage and several following pages such as Services or About Us which might have different layout or elements. So, how do they do that? And how users can create similar pages with those themes?

Page builders are WordPress plugins that allow users to create layouts for pages, add elements simply by drag and drop elements into their specific position (row and column). Users don’t need to know coding or understand HTML/CSS to create beautiful pages. All they need to know is just basic WordPress usage and understand the element configuration, that’s all.

There’re plenty of page builders available, free and premium. The most popular one is Visual Composer (at the time of writing, it has 190k+ sales on CodeCanyon!). The reason we choose Visual Composer is it has everything we need to create a page, plus it’s familiar with millions of people as they already use them. Besides, it’s fairly powerful and easy to use, even for beginners.

To understand what page builder and Visual Composer are, please watch this video:

Note: if you use our themes which support Visual Composer, you will get a free copy of the plugin!

Once activated, Visual Composer gives you control over the layout of your pages. Just add a new page and you will see new buttons so that you can toggle between classic mode and builder mode as well as a button to take you to the live front-end editor.

From here the possibilities are only limited by your (or your clients’) imagination. You can add rows, columns, buttons, text, images and so much more using all of the Visual Composer’s options. Plus there’s an option to save your layouts as templates to be reused over & over again.

Rows and columns are the basic elements to build the layout. Think a row like a horizontal section on your website and columns are vertical parts of that section.

First, you need to add a row. Doing that by clicking the plus (+) button or the Add Element button:

Then select Row from the list of elements.

Rows make it possible to add columns in one click. Just hover on the yellow paragraph tab at the top left corner of your row and select a layout. The row automatically breaks into columns according to the layout you choose.

Now you can see the plus (+) button inside each column. Clicking that button pops up a list of element that you can insert into the column.

Below the columns you can see another plus (+) button which allows you to add more rows.

Usually, when making premium WordPress themes, theme authors (including us) create custom elements for Visual Composer. In order to make them easy to find and organized, we put them in a group with the same name as the theme. The group is displayed as a tab in the element list popup:

And from here you can add our elements into your page easily. There are no differences between built-in Visual Composer elements and theme elements, but their configuration.

Theme elements are the most used elements for each premium WordPress theme. To be honest, we rarely use other built-in elements, because they lack the configuration and other appearance features that we need for the themes.

When you use the theme elements, you should start with our demo content first, to understand how we use them. Then you can adjust them to fit your requirements. But that doesn’t mean you can play with them from scratch!